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Of course, I never said it was founded by radio free asia, just that it got its initial funding from them. The only thing thats up for debate there, is their continued involvement.
But based on them defending signal from critics as recently as a few years ago.
2ndly, open source doesn't mean too much for centralized services that aren't self hostable, and especially ones that delay their source code updates until the community wonders why there haven't been any after a full year.
Link?
There are forks that exists such as Session. Open Source is important
https://archive.is/Rz6Qa near the bottom.
The forks also aren't federated, making them dead in the water imo.
In this comment you say founded. I can accept that it's a typo.